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Tottenham had only failed to score in one game before the Old Trafford clash - in their goalless draw with Swansea - and United restricted them to one chance which Dele Alli failed to take in the second-half.

United have kept eight clean sheets out of their 10 league fixtures and Mourinho insists they should be applauded for their watertight defence report the MEN .

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho (Image: Nick Potts/PA Wire)

“You know I don’t want to comment,” Mourinho began. “Because if I comment I am going to do a job that is not my job and sometimes I feel that I could or I should but other times I cool down and I think that I shouldn’t and I’m not going to do that.

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“I know that is a different way of analysing things for this reason or that reason, similar performances for some clubs are magic, are examples of brilliant tactics and amazing attitudes by the players and for other teams the same kind of performance become conservative, become negative, become so many adjectives.